Old wives' tales, and other women's stories / Tania Modleski.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Modleski, Tania, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American literature--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
• American literature.
• Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
• Feminism and literature.
• Feminist criticism.
• United States.
• History.
• Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
• Women and literature.
• Feminism--United States--History--20th century.
• Feminism.
• Feminist criticism--United States.

Physical Description:

x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [1998]

Contents:

• Introduction: feminist criticism today: notes from Jurassic Park
• Breaking silence, or an old wives' tale: sexual harassment and the legitimation crisis
• Axe the piano player
• My life as a romance reader
• My life as a romance writer
• The white Negress and the heavy-duty dyke
• Doing justice to the subjects: the work of Anna Deavere Smith
• Do we get to lose this time? revising the Vietnam War film
• A woman's gotta do
• what a man's gotta do? cross-dressing in the Western
• Something else besides a mother: reflections of a feminist on the death of her mother.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and indexes.
• Portions of some chapters have been previously published in slightly different form.

ISBN:

• 0814755933
• 0814755941

OCLC:

39281853